Makes me look into the future obstacles now and say "One day, these will all be laughably tiny in my rearview mirror."

Yes there are people who have scaled up very quickly but ask I will venture to say that none of them said that it was easy work to scale that quickly.My lesson is that quality does beat quantity over time. 

Great discounts usually happen when large quantities of real estate assets default and become bank owned.

It is the quality of the hits not the quantity and my main message would be that BiggerPockets is the most highly concentrated site to network, partner and learn Real Estate Investing."

Depending on your quantity doing them in house may work for you.

My debt payments are tiny.

You are assuming the GC is after a larger quantity of work, rather than focusing on the quality of the partnership you’re proposing.Here are some examples to get you thinking.

And for all their buying, they still own just a tiny fraction of the SFH rental market - no more than 5% in any state, I believe.Also, the homeownership rate fell in the wake of the financial crisis but then started to pick back up. 

That city has an insane number of STRs and I'd be willing to bet that at LEAST 80% of them were purchased by people that never so much as opened an excel spreadsheet or punched a number into a calculator, much less had any idea how much revenue a place could generate before they bought it or how much profit or loss that turned into after expenses.The people here are on BP are doing it right, but represent a small small small teeny tiny minority of STR owners.  99% of STR owners have never heard of Bigger Pockets and most don't have the capacity or desire to search a place like this out. 

But you are a known quantity...you were neighbors.